"...it's not rocket surgery."

As you said about us operating both our igoogle and google docs, we have had the chance to learn different ways to keep connected with peers and students.

Looking back at the last two class sessions, we were paired up to work on an assignment concentrating on interdisciplinary content. Here, I worked with Alison who has a background in Language Arts. We decided to work on a project aiming at the Salem Witch Trials. Here, we looked into really seeing what resources we can use that can combine the Language Arts goals and the ones for Social Studies.

For the project, it was a success. Both of us were creative in making the project attractive to the students so they could get more out of the lesson than a completion grade. As for working with Alison, it was fun and I felt as if we worked on the same page in goals targeted and what kind of questions needed for the students to gain as much knowledge from this activity. Especially when it came for adjusting the activity for students with special needs, I was able to offer an insight on how the adjustment can be made to still fit the academic needs for those children who are low performers.

In the future, I hope to have more opportunities in the school system where I can collaborate with other teachers to blend the goals across content areas. When exposed to the material in more than one class, the students have a better chance of learning the material.